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Vaughan Williams’s The Garden of Proserpine
6th Jun 2011by Chris O'Reilly
Paul Daniel and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra make a splendid case for Vaughan Williams’s early setting of poetry by Algernon Charles Swinburne for solo soprano, chorus and orchestra, coupled with *In the Fen Country*. -
Beethoven's Diabelli Variations from Paul Lewis
30th May 2011by Chris O'Reilly
Following his masterly traversals of the complete piano concertos and sonatas, the British pianist imbues the *Diabelli Variations* with humour, exuberance and poetic beauty in a recording which stands comparison with his mentor Alfred Brendel. -
New DVDs from Glyndebourne
23rd May 2011by Chris O'Reilly
South African baritone Jacques Imbrailo is endearing and compelling in the title-role of *Billy Budd* (directed by Michael Grandage), whilst Gerald Finley is an elegantly rakish Don Giovanni in Jonathan Kent’s 1950s staging.Featured product
Mozart: Don Giovanni (DVD)
Gerald Finley (Don Giovanni), Luca Pisaroni (Leporello), Kate Royal (Donna Elvira), Anna Samuil (Donna Anna), William Burden (Ottavio), Anna Virovlansky (Zerlina), Guido Loconsolo (Masetto) The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski, Jonathan Kent
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Handel's Ariodante
9th May 2011by Katherine Cooper
Joyce DiDonato sings the title-role on Alan Curtis’s recording of Handel’s Scottish opera, with Marie-Nicole Lemieux as the dastardly Polinesso and Karina Gauvin as the woman they both love. -
Daniel Barenboim plays Chopin and conducts Tchaikovsky
2nd May 2011by Chris O'Reilly
The pianist joins Andris Nelsons and the Staatskapelle Berlin for the two Chopin piano concertos, and conducts an electrifying *Pathétique* with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which he co-founded with the late Edward Said. -
Fliter and Ibragimova excel in Beethoven
25th Apr 2011by Chris O'Reilly
Ingrid Fliter records the Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 17 and 23 on Warner Classics, and Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien continue their excellent series of the violin sonatas on Wigmore Hall Live. -
Julia Lezhneva sings Rossini
18th Apr 2011by Katherine Cooper
Katherine enjoys a hugely promising debut solo album from the Russian soprano (who was just nineteen when the recording was made), including arias from *La cenerentola*, *La donna del lago* and *Guillaume Tell* with Marc Minkowski and Sinfonia Varsovia. -
Lully’s Bellérophon
11th Apr 2011by Chris O'Reilly
Christophe Rousset presides over a splendidly elegant account of Lully’s 1679 opera, with Cyril Auvity in the title-role, and Les Talens Lyriques on vigorous form.Featured product
Lully: Bellérophon
Cyril Auvity (Bellérophon), Céline Scheen (Philonoé), Ingrid Perruche (Sténobeé), Jennifer Borghi (Argie/Pallas), Evgeniy Alexiev (Pan/Jobate-Le Roy), Jean Teitgen (Apollon/Amisodar) & Robert Getchell (Bacchis/La Pythie) Chamber Choir of Namur & Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (direction)
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Rachmaninov's Second Symphony
28th Mar 2011by Chris O'Reilly
Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia bring unrivaled passion and commitment to the 1907 symphony in this live recording made in Rome in 2009. -
Suk's Asrael Symphony
21st Mar 2011by Chris O'Reilly
In one of his last performances with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the late Sir Charles Mackerras conducts a magnificent account of the underrated 1906 symphony, composed in memory of Suk’s mentor and father-in-law Dvořák. -
Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
14th Mar 2011by Chris O'Reilly
Anna Netrebko and Marianna Pizzolato join Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell’ Accademia di Santa Cecilia for an unusually full-blooded account of Pergolesi’s best-known work, plus a chamber cantata apiece. -
Striggio: Mass in 40 Parts
7th Mar 2011by Chris O'Reilly
Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini give the world premiere recording of the Italian Renaissance composer’s mighty * Missa Ecco si Beato Giorno*, rediscovered and identified in Paris five years ago, and composed shortly before Tallis’s *Spem in alium*. -
Tomás Luis de Victoria
28th Feb 2011by Chris O'Reilly
Harry Christophers and The Sixteen marks the 400th anniversary of the Spanish composer’s death with a ‘beautifully sung and superbly recorded’ new album centring on the *Missa Alma Redemptoris Mater*. -
Lisa Batiashvili - Echoes of Time
21st Feb 2011by Chris O'Reilly
The Georgian violinist makes her debut on Deutsche Grammophon with a program of works by composers whose lives and music were influenced by political upheaval in the former Soviet Union, including Shostakovich, Kancheli and Pärt. -
Kate Royal: A Lesson in Love
14th Feb 2011by Chris O'Reilly
The British soprano and Malcolm Martineau present an eclectic programme of German, French, American and Italian songs tracing a young girl’s first love-affair, including music by Debussy, Liszt, Wolf, Schumann and Bolcom. -
Simon Rattle's new Mahler 2
7th Feb 2011by Chris O'Reilly
24 years after his landmark recording of the ‘Resurrection’ Symphony with Dame Janet Baker and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Rattle returns to the piece with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Kate Royal and Magdalena Kožená. -
Percy Grainger
31st Jan 2011by Chris O'Reilly
The fiftieth anniversary of the Australian pianist, composer and all-round eccentric brings reissues of his own recordings on APR and a tribute from Benjamin Britten and friends, plus the *Jungle Book* from John Mark Ainsley, Polyphony and Stephen Layton.Featured product
The Grainger Edition Volumes 1-19
Susan Gritton (soprano), Della Jones, Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-sopranos), Martyn Hill, Mark Padmore, Mark Tucker (tenors), Johan Reuter, Stephen Varcoe (baritones), Tim Hugh (cello), John Lavender, Wayne Marshall, Penelope Thwaites, Geoffrey Tozer (piano) Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus and Ensemble, Danish National Radio Choir, Joyful Company of Singers, RNCM Wind Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, BBC Philharmonic, Jesper Grove Jorgensen, Timothy Reynish, Clark Rundell, Richard Hickox
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Arne: Artaxerxes
24th Jan 2011by Chris O'Reilly
Ian Page and the Classical Opera Company resurrect the British composer’s ornate depiction of skulduggery in Ancient Persia, premiered in London in 1762, with Christopher Ainslie in the title-role and Elizabeth Watts as his firebrand sister. -
Handel and Strauss from Dessay and Damrau
17th Jan 2011by Chris O'Reilly
Dessay trails her imminent performances of Cleopatra in *Giulio Cesare* in Paris by recording all of the Egyptian queen’s arias with Le Concert d’Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm, whilst Damrau is sensual in Strauss Lieder with Christian Thielemann. -
Nielsen Symphonies from Colin Davis and the LSO
10th Jan 2011by Chris O'Reilly
At the grand old age of 83, the British conductor ventures into new territory by embarking on a complete cycle of symphonies by the Danish, whose music he has only rarely conducted in the course of his long and illustrious career.